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Archive for July, 2018

this evening (tuesday 31st), 10.01-10.03pm, and 10.08-10.19pm, on bbc radio 4the world tonight (presented by ritula shah) leads with …

“The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is coming under increasing pressure to expel a member of the party’s National Executive Committee for making disparaging remarks about the Jewish community. Several Labour MPs have called for Peter Willsman to be barred from standing for reelection to the NEC.”

this afternoon (tuesday 31st), 1.05-1.06pm, 1.25-1.26pm, 5.25-5.30pm, and 6.11-6.13pm, on bbc radio 4world at one (presented by sarah montague), pm (presented by eddie mair), and six o’clock news include …

“A member of the ruling body of the Labour Party, the National Executive Committee, has been recorded at a meeting talking about the party’s Jewish critics. Pete Willsman, who is a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, suggested ’Jewish Trump fanatics’ were behind accusations of anti-semitism in the party. He expressed amazement when others in the room indicated they had witnessed anti-semitism in Labour.”

this afternoon (tuesday 31st), 2.36-2.49pm (repeated 9.36pm), on bbc world service radionewshour (presented by james menendez) includes …

“To a case now which has become a cause celebre for free speech advocates in Israel and beyond: Dareen Tatour is an Arab-Israeli poet living near Nazareth. In October 2015, she was arrested and subsequently charged with inciting violence and supporting a terrorist organisation. It was because of several of her social media posts, including one which she read a poem called ’Resist my people, resist’, accompanied by footage of Palestinian protesters throwing stones at Israeli police … she has been sentenced to 5 months in prison.”

this morning (tuesday 31st), 6.03-6.04am, 6.08-6.09am, 6.36-6.39am, 7.04-7.05am, and 8.04-8.05am, on bbc radio 4today (presented by nick robinson and john humphrys) includes …

“Who is to blame for the long apparently never-ending row about anti-semitism in the Labour Party? ’Jewish Trump fanatics’, that at least is the view of a leading ally of Jeremy Corbyn on Labour’s National Executive Committee. He’s called Peter Willsman, and his private views were recorded and handed to the Jewish Chronicle newspaper.”

BBC bias: The BBC does not normally report the release of a convicted prisoner when it has already extensively reported the trial and sentence, since there is nothing new to report. This one-sided report contains no news, and is an excuse for broadcasting two propaganda speeches.

this evening (sunday 29th), 9.25-9.30pm, on bbc world service radionewshour (presented by james menendez) includes …

”A Palestinian teenager has been released from prison after serving an 8 month sentence for kicking and slapping an Israeli soldier.”

this afternoon (sunday 29th), 1.00-1.01pm, 1.02pm, and 1.05-1.26pm, on bbc radio 4the world this weekend (presented by jonny dymond) leads with …

“A second Labour MP is now under investigation by the Labour Party. It’s been reported he was arguing with a fellow MP about how anti-semitism has been dealt with by the Party.”
“I went to North London to talk to a Labour/supporting Jewish family, and to find what they thought.”